Media misleads public again on Tim Kee; Live Wire demands their resignation

The following is the actual excerpt from an an interview with Raymond Tim Kee on Sky 99.5 FM, just after lunch today:

Photo: Port of Spain mayor Raymond Tim Kee.(Courtesy Wired868)

Interviewer Jessie-May Ventour: Mr Tim Kee, at the 12 o clock news we found out that you are still the mayor of Port of Spain, that you have not officially tendered your resignation. Is that still the case at this point in time?

Tim Kee: As we speak, yes… That is the case. But I can tell you before we put our lights on this evening that will no longer be the case.

Ventour: I just want to be absolutely clear. By this evening, you will no longer be mayor of Port Spain?

Tim Kee: Precisely.

The subsequent headline: “Tim Kee resigns” was immediately splashed across almost every media house in the country with many claiming that Tim Kee had already tendered his resignation.

Did he resign to Jessie-May? Is saying you are going to something the same as doing it?

Is it the fact that he said it a third time, which made it true? Does the media operate by the same rules as the “Candyman?”

Photo: Just to confirm. You said you have not yet resigned… But since we already said you promised to resign, can we just say you resigned?

Having recklessly misinterpreted Tim Kee’s non-resignation and misquoted the Port of Spain, Mr Live Wire thinks the local media should now do the honourable thing.

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The media in this country is mostly made up of people who can’t get work with their creative arts degree or awaiting on a job in communications. Many real investigative journalists have been stifled in the system and replaced by a new breed of men and women who try their best to get complimentary tickets to be seen while surfing Facebook to write about what’s trending .

Whaaaatttt? They have to be joking! Aha, I figure it out. After Carnival comes Comedy Festival, and you know with the recession people cyah afford to buy much tickets. So Mr Tim Jo-Kee, “assisted of course by the” media, has decided to give us his own show, free of charge!

Exactly and he is so aloof that he wasn’t even calling around begging everyone to support him when he landed in trouble.
Apart from his trusted aides, he told the council nothing even as he claimed to the media that he would meet them to resign.
Now, he has to convince them to throw their lot in with him.
He lacks the brain and savvy of Jack Warner.

It’s almost like the media didn’t learn from the initial resignation announcement…
It’s not beneath him to retract. It’s above him to understand why he shouldn’t retract, but it’s not beneath him to actually retract.

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